Poetry director (2010) – Lee Chang-dong went on to produce a movie masterpiece, Burning in 2018. Adapted from the short story Burning Barn Burning by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Lee Chang-dong changed changed the main character to better match the opposition, anger and rage that he desired and spent the second half to develop the film over 2 hours in the direction of the detective, darker and more extreme. .
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The film is built on the background of a love triangle, moreover intermingled and dominated the picture of the easy life and many thoughts of young people, but it does not stop there. -dong took one more step, very cleverly, which is to expose the outer shell of a story which in itself was not simple through the strange and mysterious connection of the trio (which said this is easy) Jongsu (Ah-In Yoo) temporarily calls him a guy on the ground with a novelist dreaming and struggling with a living.
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Ben (Steven Yeun) is a rich, heavenly boy and Haemi (Jeon Jong-seo) is a dreamy girl halfway through; they collide but cannot harbor each other at the same connection. Through this division we can somewhat see the separation and difference between young people swimming in different worlds, even though they seem to be struggling to find a vague meaning in life, after all, is just throwing into life humiliating anger to the end of rejection, denial of the existence of each other and of oneself.
The movie “ Burning ” begins with two childhood friends from the same hometown of Jongsu and Haemi who meet by chance on a crowded street in a place that is definitely not their hometown when they are both doing manual labor. Haemi was originally built as a mysterious dreamy character, no one predicted what would happen next to her, what was and belonged to her, what was invisible / visible. in her world.
Falling into a shallow well, learning pantomime, peeling off imaginary tangerines, is there a cat that has never appeared (and probably appeared), cries easily, sleeps, runs away from family, small room? her tidying up the little sunlight reflected from the Namsan tower and then off when she made love to Jongsu, went to Africa, yearning for the dance of the hungry and disappearing like never before.
Jongsu could not recognize her despite them being neighbors as a child. After returning to his hometown to take over the house and the cow for the impatient father in court, Jongsu, along with his love of finding Haemi’s unfinished image pieces and fulfilling his responsibilities with The father and later the mother abandoned him after many years of not meeting.
Ben is boyfriend Haemi who comes back from Africa. Rich and free. Representing the generation of “one step to heaven”. Haemi is both an interesting highlight and a girl bringing strange flavors to his party with rich young friends who are always looking for one thing for another. A strange point in Ben, the guy with an elegant and friendly appearance always wears a satisfied and regal smile on the face, Ben sometimes likes to burn plastic (but again) greenhouses. Something that no one noticed, burned and then quickly burned as never existed.
Earlier in 2010 Lee Chang-dong released Poetry, the best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the journey of the soul-searching journey of Yang Mi-ya, a 66-year-old woman living with her grandson who was abandoned by her mother in a small apartment. The film Burning has created a very interesting contrast effect, building a perfect strange picture between two opposing opposing sides, painful, dark, utterly unbearable; On the other hand, it’s beautiful and so poetic.
And in Burning, Jongsu’s opposition and separation between the country adjacent to the Korean border and (a person who never belonged to his homeland) Haemi and Seoul were magnificent. On one side are endless fields, but the house is low, the roads are deserted, dusty, the house is cluttered and the smell of cow dung, one side is the roads, cars, crowded shops and high houses. On one side, Jongsu in a dream life became a novelist and Ben in his endless enjoyment and style showed that he was always in a high position among the gods.
In Burning, there was not one answer to every doubt. Every detail leads to ambiguity. Haemi’s hurried journey eventually brings her to a familiar ending for the female character in Haruki Murakami’s story. She disappeared. There is nothing difficult to understand and nothing to understand.
The second half of the Korean movie is the journey to find Haemi, whom Jongsu loves but it is unclear if he really knows who she is. Haemi’s room was tidied up after she disappeared, where Jongsu searched for the brief, rare sunlight reflected from the TV tower in Seoul to find a pleasure to replace the sudden disappearance of Haemi, you do it like you used to peel tangerines in your fantasies.
Without an investigation being opened, Haemi was designed until she was perfect to disappear. Except for Jongsu, he could not accept that strange truth, he queried, pursued, accidentally or deliberately did not understand, he searched all the plastic glass houses around his area and searched. the greenhouse that Ben burned in the hope of being able to clarify Haemi’s disappearance without a trace.
He hadn’t seen any greenhouses burnt while Ben claimed he did and the only thing that caught fire last was Ben and his Porsche. The greatest violence and grief was exerted most intensely by a guy who dreamed of becoming a writer. Jongsu seemed to be a character who didn’t have a lot of acting and depth like Yang Mi-ya in Poetry or Lee Shin-ae in Secret Sunshine.
But there was a spectacular reversal when his violent identity and pent-up anger were pulled up, stronger than ever. No one knows how Haemi actually disappeared, no one knows Ben really burned the greenhouse, they hugged their secrets to the end. Only Lee Jong-su in his own gentle gentleness, in the end, in the middle, also burst into a flame of pain and anger more than anyone else.
To close up some of my feelings about Burning (but it actually took me a while to write all of this because I haven’t really written in a long time) I remember William Faulkner writing in The Trees. Palm Hoang, “Between pain and nothing, I will choose pain”.
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